A review by bananatricky
Forbidden Fling by Skye Jordan
3.0
I received a free copy of this novel from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
I just don't know how to rate this book, it reads like I have missed a few books from a series but now I see it's the first in a series, so the unexplained just gets more irritating.
Delaney Hart has come back to her home town, years after she ran away, in order to save her family's sole asset - a run down bar - from demolition. She has a hot and steamy one-night stand with a gorgeous guy, one who knows her but she doesn't recognise, only to find out the next day that not only is he the building inspector but also Ethan Hart, son of the family which blames her for the death of his cousin Ian in that same bar years ago.
This is a novel about small town prejudices and overcoming the roles which society assigns to you as a teenager.
So, I liked the story but it was too focused on Delaney and Ethan, we never really know what happened the night that Ian died. Also I don't really understand how Ethan's family can blame both Delaney AND Ethan for Ian's death. In fact, overall there was a whole lot of plot that just seemed to get junked at the end, as if Skye Jordan ran out of time and just decided to write "The End". I read the final chapter three times because I couldn't believe that I had missed the resolution of so many plot threads, but no they are just left hanging - maybe for the next book?
I just don't know how to rate this book, it reads like I have missed a few books from a series but now I see it's the first in a series, so the unexplained just gets more irritating.
Delaney Hart has come back to her home town, years after she ran away, in order to save her family's sole asset - a run down bar - from demolition. She has a hot and steamy one-night stand with a gorgeous guy, one who knows her but she doesn't recognise, only to find out the next day that not only is he the building inspector but also Ethan Hart, son of the family which blames her for the death of his cousin Ian in that same bar years ago.
This is a novel about small town prejudices and overcoming the roles which society assigns to you as a teenager.
So, I liked the story but it was too focused on Delaney and Ethan, we never really know what happened the night that Ian died. Also I don't really understand how Ethan's family can blame both Delaney AND Ethan for Ian's death. In fact, overall there was a whole lot of plot that just seemed to get junked at the end, as if Skye Jordan ran out of time and just decided to write "The End". I read the final chapter three times because I couldn't believe that I had missed the resolution of so many plot threads, but no they are just left hanging - maybe for the next book?